"Screenwriting is the most prized of all the cinematic arts. Actually, it isn't, but it should be."

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Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Hugh Laurie

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“I would like to be a parson on this island. Explain the Sermon on the Mount to ordinary people and let the world be the world.”
“The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.”
“We walked always in beauty, it seemed to me. We walked and looked about, or stood and looked. Sometimes, less often, we would sit down. We did not often speak. The place spoke for us and was a kind of speech. We spoke to each other in the things we saw.”
“Now, Mama, Papa, and sir," said Ramses, "please withdraw to the farthest corner and crouch down with your backs turned. It is as I feared; we will never break through by this method. The walls are eight feet thick. Fortunately I brought along a little nitroglycerin--" "Oh, good Gad," shrieked Inspector Cuff.”
“In the sermon I have just preached, whenever I said Aristotle, I meant St. Paul.”
“The real desk isn't one with four legs and a filing cabinet. It's the space of time that you stake out every day and the will with which you defend it.”
“Let me conclude by saying in my experience the glittering prizes in life come more to those who persevere despite setback and disappointment than they do to the exceptionally gifted who, with the confidence of the talents bestowed upon them, often pursue the tasks leading to success with less determination.”

Source : Bryce Courtenay (2010). “The Power Of One: Popular Penguins”, p.775, Penguin UK
“All Children Have Brain Damage!”

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